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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global economies led to continued market volatility throughout March. Developed market equity falls in March meant that at the end of the quarter they had...

Axa PPP Healthcare is offering is number of policy enhancements to support members through the current Covid crisis. This includes setting up a new clinical support centre which will provide virtual access...

Lifestyling strategies used by the default DC pension schemes have helped protect members from worst effects of the severe stock market correction that has followed the coronavirus pandemic. Pension advisers and trustees...

Schroders has completed the £75 billion transfer of assets from Scottish Widows and Lloyds, following the announcement of a strategic joint partnership between the asset management and the banking group back in...

Isio has appointed Vito Faircloth to the newly created role of head of digital solutions. This is the first senior appointment for Isio, which was formerly the pensions advisory business of KPMG...

Pension providers and advisers have reported widespread confusion as to how the Job Retention Scheme will impact firms who use salary sacrifice schemes for pension payments - saying more clarification from the...

Firms are breaking employment law by imposing salary cuts and pension reductions without undertaking a  required 60-day consultation period with employee representative groups. Advisers attending a virtual Corporate Adviser roundtable on the...

Many hundreds of employers have stopped making pension contributions after furloughing staff according to trustees.  Capital Cranfield professional trustee Andrew Cheseldine says some  master trusts they work with  have seen cancellations from...

Employers struggling to meet their auto-enrolment and other workplace pensions obligations can expect a ‘proportionate’ risk-based approach to enforcement says The Pensions Regulator. Issuing a Covid-19 guidance update, TPR says auto-enrolment contributions...

Scottish Widows has appointed former executive director for regulatory policy at The Pensions Regulator Andrew Warwick-Thompson as the new chair of its master trust. Warwick-Thompson takes over from Kim Nash, who steps...